California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Architectural Heritage
San Francisco Architectural Heritage (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,345,148 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($341,482). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What San Francisco Architectural Heritage does
Mission
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SF Heritage owns and maintains an 1886 Queen Anne Victorian house and museum open two days a week and by appointment to groups guided by docents
$186,111 spent$120,628 earned by the program25% of program spendingHeritage advocates urban conservation in the public-decision making process by monitoring projects and policies that affect historic and cultural resources at the San Francisco Planning Commission Historic Preservation Commission and the Board of Supervisors and by providing a forum for public awareness. Other Educational programs include walking tours of San Francisco special tours and lectures about its architectural history legacy businesses and cultural history. SF Heritage monitors 59 preservation easements ensuring the facades of historically structures are maintained in perpetuity.
$339,653 spentof which $110,414 as grants$3,779,625 earned by the program46% of program spendingSF Heritage owns the Doolan Larson building and storefronts located at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. The Doolan Larson building serves as a center for the interpretation and preservation of Haight-Ashburys many contributions to Americas countercultural legacy and hosts periodic artist residencies.
$209,760 spent$222,128 earned by the program29% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $735,524.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.8M to $11M (+129%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 46% · 2022 40% · 2023 20% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of San Francisco Architectural Heritage’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephen Labounty
President CEO
Board chair
Elisa Skaggs
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $242k → $66k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of San Francisco Architectural Heritage’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
San Francisco Architectural Heritage has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund San Francisco Architectural Heritage.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 59% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of San Francisco Architectural Heritage's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of San Francisco Architectural Heritage's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $645k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
San Francisco Architectural Heritage runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding San Francisco Architectural Heritage receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- Department of the Interior$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like San Francisco Architectural Heritage
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Francisco Architectural Heritage: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds San Francisco Architectural Heritage?
- San Francisco Architectural Heritage (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,345,148 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($341,482). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Francisco Architectural Heritage have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,345,148 in grants to San Francisco Architectural Heritage, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Architectural Heritage?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $341,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Architectural Heritage find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing